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A free health centre for the poor that Somnath Chatterjee had set up here and named after mentor Jyoti Basu closed down on Tuesday for the "time being", uncertain about its monthly funding of Rs 80,000 that came from the former Lok Sabha Speaker.

Mamata Banerjee claimed on Tuesday that 25 lakh Hindu Bengalis and 13 lakh Muslim Bengalis were among 40 lakh people whose names had been left out of the final draft of the National Register of Citizens in Assam, reiterating that it was an "anti-Bengali" exercise.

The Power Grid Corporation India estimated a loss of around Rs 25 crore from theft and damage of equipment at the sub-station in Bhangar as the firm resumed the work on the truncated project on Tuesday after 18 months.

Suraj Subba, the former general secretary of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's trade union, was arrested on Monday in connection with the 2017 June 8 clash that triggered the last round of the statehood agitation in the hills.

Siliguri MLA and mayor Asok Bhattacharya has written to Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari, seeking a comprehensive probe into the collapse of portions of an under-construction flyover at Kantibhita in Phansidewa.